🎥 Sputnik drone footage of the Azovstal plant territory in Mariupol, where Ukrainian neo-Nazis are blocked

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🐬😖🐬A Miami Seaquarium trainer was attacked by a dolphin during a live Flipper Dolphin Show Saturday.

"It looked like the dolphin rammed into the trainer," Shannon Carpenter, a photographer who was in the audience to see the show, told WSVN. "There was a struggle, some kind of collision underwater happened. The lady on the paddleboard, she paddled out of the water pretty quick, and then the lead trainer started swimming back towards the dock, and it looked like she got ran into a couple more times."

The Seaquarium said in a statement Tuesday that the trainer accidentally scratched Sundance the dolphin with her hand which led to the aggressive reaction. Miami Seaquarium says this is the first time a dolphin has broken its routine and attacked. The trainer was reportedly sent to the hospital.

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😷😬A deep sense of unease has descended on Shanghai, China’s largest city and the economic and cultural capital, amid a surging Covid-19 outbreak that has brought the metropolis to its knees.

Stuck in a citywide lockdown that started on March 28 with no end in sight, the emotions coming out of Shanghai have fluctuated between anger, frustration, reluctant resolve, and small moments of joy.

And yet, the anxieties have been fuelled by images of pandemic prevention workers killing dogs, hungry residents looting grocery stores, and drones flying over skyscrapers telling residents to “control your soul’s desire for freedom”

While Shanghai has this week allowed some neighborhoods to step outside their homes, the city recorded 27,000 cases on Wednesday, rewriting the daily record for the 12th time in 13 days. As Shanghai embarks on its new future, the South China Morning Post gauged the temperature of its residents stuck in Covid-19 limbo.

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😲😢A university student died while acting in a recreation of Jesus's crucifixion - and onlookers thought it was part of the act.

Sule Ambrose, 25, was training to be a priest at the Clariantian University seminary in Nekede, southeastern Nigeria. Ambrose took the part of Simon Peter, Jesus's most important Disciple, dressing up in a long white toga for the Good Friday reenactment.

But he slumped to the ground during the performance and began bleeding. Onlookers thought it was part of the reenactment, local media reported.

Eyewitness Micheal Eluwa told Vanguard: 'Initially when it happened we thought it was a joke, and that it was part of the drama. 'It was when he could not get up that was when we knew it was a serious matter and he was rushed to a school hospital.

'Later, when the case became worse, he was taken to a nearly Federal Medical Center. It was from there we heard he could not survive it.'

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📚 🚫On Friday, Florida’s Department of Education announced the rejection of 54 math textbooks over the presence of “prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including [critical race theory].” Last year, Florida’s Department of Education banned CRT.

“It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students,” DeSantis said in a statement. The insertion of social-emotional learning (SEL) and Common Core into textbooks was also cited for rejection. 71% of math textbooks for grades K-5 were rejected.

Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis believes that these rejected textbooks were a trojan horse for banned topics and concepts.

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🧐A rapper whose social-media accounts are filled with venomous anti-police rants is running to become a Democratic Party district leader in Brooklyn.

Noah Weston — who is running on the “For the People” slate with congressional candidate Brittany Ramos De Barros and Assemblyman Mathylde Frontus in southern Brooklyn — has called officers “f–king pigs,” “plague rats” and “sacks of s–t” who do more harm than good. “The greatest threats in this city are Eric Adams and the NYPD,” Weston tweeted from noah4DL on Saturday.

On Feb. 28, 2021, Weston known as the rapper Soul Khan retweeted a video of an incident where cops are seen kneeling on top of an old man in the subway.

“F–k this f–king pigs till the day their misbegotten lives end. Abolish these egrish sacks of s–t,” wrote Weston, a West Hollywood, Calif., native who now performs in a hip-hop group called Brown Bag All-Stars.

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‼️Police Search for Suspects After Two Killed in Mass shooting in Pittsburgh At least eight people were wounded by gunfire at a party that drew 200 people, many of them underage, to an Airbnb rental. As many as 50 rounds were fired, the authorities said.

Police were looking for suspects and appealing for witnesses to come forward after two young men were shot to death after a large party in Pittsburgh degenerated into a barrage of gunfire shortly after midnight on Easter Sunday, the police said.

Police were looking for suspects and appealing for witnesses to come forward after two young men were shot to death after a large party in Pittsburgh degenerated into a barrage of gunfire shortly after midnight on Easter Sunday, the police said.

“It’s heartbreaking,” the city’s police chief, Scott E. Schubert, said at an afternoon news conference. “How can you even have a holiday when your child was involved in something traumatic like this?”

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🔻A Pennsylvania candidate for the U.S. House has been open about her past as a part-time stripper in college and her decision to get an abortion when she was 18.

Alexandra Hunt, who is running for the Democratic nomination for a Philadelphia-area congressional district, has used her past to drive attention to her progressive campaign platform, including by starting an OnlyFans page for herself that is not associated with her campaign.

In a May 2021 video posted to Twitter, Hunt described what led her to get an abortion a decade ago. "When I was 18, I was part of the 2% of people who can get pregnant on birth control and I found out I was pregnant. And I decided that I was not ready to bring a child in this world and I decided to get an abortion," Hunt says in the video.

Hunt went on to say that the state of the world back then, and today, was not the kind of place she would want to bring a child into anyway.

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⚡️ US Congress members to visit Germany, UAE, hoping to get more support for Kiev, reports say

❗️ Explosion hits Beyoglu district in Istanbul, residents being evacuated, reports say

⚡️ French minister refuses to call events in Ukraine a genocide

📌 The Russian Defence Ministry has briefed the press on the Ukraine op:

▪️ High-precision air-based weapons destroyed 16 military assets in Ukraine overnight;

▪️ Russian air defence systems have shot down one Ukrainian drone;

▪️ Operational-tactical aviation hit 108 areas of concentration of Ukrainian troops and military equipment;

▪️ Russian Army aviation destroyed eight Ukrainian tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed four Ukrainian arms depots, military equipment, as well as three areas of concentration of enemy fighters using Iskander missiles;

▪️ Air defence units of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down two Ukrainian MiG-29 fighters near Izyum and one Su-25 near Avdeevka;

▪️ In total, 139 aircraft, 483 drones, 250 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,326 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 254 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,004 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2,184 special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed during the operation

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⚡️ Turkey continues efforts to broker Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Erdogan's spokesman says

❗️ Russian MoD discloses data with documented losses of Ukrainian forces

❗️ Kiev plans to shell churches on Orthodox Easter to accuse Russian forces of war crimes, Russian MoD says

⚡️ The Russian MoD has published footage of the aftermath of a Ukrainian Tochka-U strike on a farm enterprise in the Zaporozhye region

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⚡️ Kremlin believes information about countries that agreed to pay for Russian gas in rubles unlikely to be published

📌 What else has the Russian MoD revealed about the Orthodox Easter provocation prepared by Kiev?

▪️ The provocations are planned for Orthodox Easter night (from April 23 to April 24);

▪️ Kiev provocations with numerous victims are being prepared in the Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkov regions with the support of a number of Western countries;

▪️ Over 70 mobile groups were formed from the personnel of Ukrainian national battalions to conduct provocations, using vans and off-road vehicles equipped with mortars (so-called "wandering mortars");

▪️ Kiev set to bring Western correspondents so that they could spread fake news about "Russian atrocities";

▪️ Russia has warned countries of the so-called "civilised West" led by the US that it has evidence of the Kiev regime's upcoming crimes;

▪️ The Russian MoD has called on the UN, OSCE, ICRC, and other international organisations to prevent these "inhumane" provocations

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⚡️ British mercs who surrendered to Russia ask Johnson to exchange them for Ukraine's Medvedchuk

❗️ Man Utd star Bruno Fernandes 'involved in car crash' just day before Liverpool clash, report says

❗Russian Investigative Committee opens probe into genocide of civilians in town of Schastye, LPR